Travel Scrapbooks for Kids

Guest Author - Kimberly Misra

Keeping a travel scrapbook is a wonderful way to get kids excited about vacation, keep them entertained en-route, and help them remember their trip once they get home. The scrapbook can be a blank sketchbook, a purchased travel scrapbook (see resources below), or just paper stapled together or placed in a 3-ring binder. Your kids can bring their scrapbooks on vacation to record events or leave them at home to fill in later. While youre on vacation, tell kids to be on the lookout for things they could save for their scrapbook. Some possibilities include:

 Photos of the hotel, the room/bed they slept in, a special park they enjoyed, the airplane, rental car, favorite souvenirs, and anything else they can think of
 Ticket stubs, receipts, or boarding passes
 Menus from favorite restaurants, a clean napkin with a logo, the fancy toothpick that came with their sandwich
 Postcards
 Business cards from favorite gift shops or hotels
 Tourist brochures: great for cutting up and gluing into a scrapbook
 Natural items they found: flowers, neat leaves, sand from the beach
 Souvenirs: bumper stickers, souvenir pennies, decals
 Anything else that catches their fancy

If your children take their scrapbooks on vacation, they can record the days happenings travel-diary fashion, along with drawings of what theyve seen. Young children may enjoy dictating their memories to you each night; their thoughts will be priceless to read as they get older. When you return home, let the kids embellish their scrapbooks with items collected from around the house or from a craft store. Check out the scrapbooking aisle of your craft store, youll find a large selection of themed papers and other items for your travel scrapbooks. Some things to consider: